Astronauts back for next-to-last shuttle flight
(AP) -- The astronauts for NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight are back in Florida for another try at launching into orbit.
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Foldable display shows no crease after 100,000 folding cycles
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most difficult problems for designing mobile devices is finding a way to minimize the size of the device while simultaneously maximizing the size of the display. To get the best ...
May 12, 2011
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Engineer builds tissue models to study diseases
Shelly Peyton, a chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is building working models of human bone, breast, liver and artery tissues to see how cells behave when they are affected by a ...
May 12, 2011
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ZeroTouch: New kind of infrared touch computer interface (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Students from Texas A&M have unveiled a project they’ve been working on for the past couple of years they call the ZeroTouch; a device that looks like an empty picture frame and uses ...
May 12, 2011
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Discovery of DNA silencing mechanism reveals how plants protect their genome
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) have clarified a key epigenetic mechanism by which an enzyme in the model plant Arabidopsis protects cells from harmful DNA elements. Published ...
May 12, 2011
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How to control complex networks
At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.
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U of T food engineers help set world record
Graduate students from the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry’s food engineering laboratory helped to set the Guinness Book of World Record May 10 for largest ...
May 12, 2011
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The night sky in 37,440 exposures
Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronized cameras about 60,000 miles to ...
May 12, 2011
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RIM's new PlayBook tablet falls short of Apple iPad
More than a year after Apple Inc. released the iPad, the search for a credible challenger to the market-changing tablet computer is still on.
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Many in US seek health information online: study
Four out of five Internet users have searched for health information online, but the Web is still no substitute for the doctor when it comes to a personal medical issue, said a US study Thursday.
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Cambodian scientist discovers new species of blind and legless lizard
First on record in Cambodia and the first reptile to be both discovered and formally described in a scientific journal by a Cambodian national.
May 12, 2011
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Cyber scams rife at social networks: Microsoft
Social networks are "lucrative hot beds" for cyber scams as crooks endeavor to dupe members of online communities, according to a Microsoft security report released on Thursday.
May 12, 2011
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Yahoo! shares drop as Alibaba service spins off
Yahoo! stock sank on news that Alibaba has spun its online payment business out of reach of the US Internet pioneer, which owns a large stake in China's leading online search service.
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White House set to unveil cyber plan
The White House on Thursday is expected to unveil its proposal to enhance the nation's cybersecurity, laying out plans to require industry to better protect systems that run critical infrastructure like the electrical grid, ...
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Value of pirated software nearly $59 billion: study
The commercial value of pirated software increased 14 percent last year to nearly $59 billion, with emerging economies accounting for over half the total, according to a study published Thursday.
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